Education
In 1958 she was discovered by the director Slatan Dudow and in 1961 attended the film university Potsdam-Babelsberg.
In 1958 she was discovered by the director Slatan Dudow and in 1961 attended the film university Potsdam-Babelsberg.
After training as a shorthand typist Domröse worked in a state-run foreign trade enterprise in East Germany. In 1966 she joined the Berliner Ensemble, where among other things she performed in Brecht"s Dreigroschenoper, Schwejk im zweiten Weltkrieg and Die Tage der Commune, as well as in Helmut Baierl"s Frau Flinz. She later worked with the Volksbühne Berlin until 1979, with whom she performed in plays by George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare and Peter Hacks.
She also worked for the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA) and Deutscher Fernsehfunk.
In 1980 she left the German Democratic Republic and moved to West Germany.